Subject: William Longley
Source: History of Lynn, Mass. by Alonzo Lewis & James R. Newhall, Boston, 1865.

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William Longley, clerk of the writs of Lynn, Mass., in 1655, son of Richard Longley of Lynn

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At a court held at Ipswich, March 26, 1661, Andrew Mansfield, "aged about
thirty-
eight yeares" made affadavit that he had been an inhabitant of Lynn "aboute twenty three yeares," and that William Longley came at the time he did and "by himselfe and familye;" had remained an inhabitant, having bought a house and land; that in
1649 this William Longley, at a general town meeting, demanded his portion of land should be laid out, according to the town records; that "the records were vewed and therein was found 40 acres granted to one Richard Longley. But his name being William Longley and not Richard, as also sum asking the said Longley whether hee had paid for the Laying it out; he answering that he had not," the majority voted that it was not his. Mr. Mansfield also testified that Longley had been called by the name Langleyand that he never knew an inhabitant of Lynn called either Longley or Langley, but THIS William Longley and his ffamilye."